LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.

ACROSS

8. It takes you from one doctor to another (8)

9. Loved publicity or head journalist? (6)

10. Part of task is to glide on snow (3)

11. Resist surgical stance (6)

12. Be quiet in front of calf (4)

14. Frankfurter man’s best friend has short legs (7,3)

17. Her jewellery looks like a fish (7)

18. Unpleasant sound from road behind disco (7)

19. Vehicles for the patient (10)

22. Cultivate forehead and arm (4)

23. Limited to fine night apparently (6)

24. Used to own helipad outside (3)

26. Hears what beginner earns (6)

27. Punishment put into words? (8)

DOWN

1. Strings of pearls head support

with shoestrings (9)

2. Charge for some coffee (3)

3. Spread of allegations that makes them sound like a proper gander (10)

4. Nut ingredient in salmon dish (6)

5. Read about challenge (4)

6. Charger speeding to sport of kings (5,6)

7. Spirit used in lamp and progenies (5)

13. Moon-starers, perhaps? (11)

15. Office device makes heads roll (10)

16. Self-employed writer has eel in France (9)

20. Exile some Cuban? I shout (6)

21. East, in fact, is one surface of many (5)

23. Quick! Stop eating! (4)

25. Condensation due, we hear (3)